Africa Great Lakes Democracy Watch

Welcome toAfrica Great Lakes Democracy Watch Blog.Our objective is to promote the institutions of democracy,social justice,Human Rights,Peace, Freedom ofExpression, and Respect to humanity in Rwanda,Uganda,DR Congo, Burundi,Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya,Ethiopia, and Somalia. We strongly believe that Africa will develop if only our presidents stop being rulers of men and become leaders of citizens. We support Breaking the Silence Campaign for DR Congo since we believe the democracy in Rwanda means peace inDRC. Follow this link to learn more about the origin of the war in both Rwanda and DR Congo:http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

Saturday, November 10, 2012

RWANDA-USA:America and the politics of genocide in Africa

On Tuesday,
the vast majority of African Americans cast their votes for a man whose hands
are soaked in the blood of millions of Congolese. Barack Obama, like his
predecessors George Bush and Bill Clinton, has pulled the strings, paid the
cash, and sent the weapons that Uganda and Rwanda have used to cause the deaths
of six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo since invading that
country in 1996.

Various organs
of the United Nations have repeatedly found America’s two top allies in Black
Africa complicit in the Congo genocide, and on every occasion, the U.S. and
Great Britain have protected the mass murderers. And why not? The genocide in
Congo is the deliberate result of American and British policy. Uganda and Rwanda
are merely henchmen, who commit mass murder in return for a cut of Congo’s vast
stores of mineral resources. Western businesses are the ultimate
beneficiaries.

The
International Court of Justice found Uganda guilty, in 2005, of killing and
torturing Congolese civilians and plundering the country’s resources. Congo
asked for $10 billion in reparations, but Uganda has paid nothing. Why should
it? Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, was Ronald Reagan’s favorite African
dictator and has served U.S. African policy, ever since.

Uganda does not
act on its own, but as a military asset of the United States. The same goes for
Rwanda, which has been repeatedly cited for virtually annexing the eastern Congo
in close collaboration with Ugandan forces. Rwanda President Paul Kagame acts as
a puppet for U.S. policy in Africa, in return for lavish American military and
economic aid and free rein to plunder and kill in the
Congo.

Rwanda and
Uganda are immune from international law because they do Washington’s bidding,
sending troops wherever they are needed to buttress U.S. interests in
Africa.

Last week,
Uganda pitched a kind of puppet tantrum, threatening to pull its troops out of
so-called peace-keeping duties in Somalia. Museveni’s government is angry,
because yet another United Nations report has been leaked, showing that Ugandan
and Rwandan military officers are directly in charge of the so-called rebels
that are wreaking havoc in Congo. This is not a Congolese civil war, but a
continuation of a 16-year aggression by its two neighbors, financed and directed
by the United States and Britain.

Uganda’s threat
to pull out of Somalia has proven to be empty. After all, what is a samurai
without a lord and master? Uganda’s value to the United States lies in its
willingness to kill other Africans on orders from Washington. A Uganda
withdrawal from Somalia would amount to going on strike against its employer,
the United States - a very dangerous thing to do. Besides, who else is going to
employ the Ugandan and Rwandan mercenaries?

By the time the
Uganda delegation got to New York, there was no more mention of leaving Somalia,
much less a Ugandan disengagement from the U.S. Special Forces units that
President Obama sent into the Great Lakes region, last year. Uganda had
temporarily forgotten its place as a servant in the neocolonial scheme of
things. But, in truth, the Ugandans and Rwandans need not worry about the U.S.
cracking down on their genocidal activities in Congo, because that, too, serves
America’s purpose: to control Africa by drowning it in chaos and
blood.